Viddenes folk (The People of the Mountain Plateau)[1][2] is a Norwegian romantic drama film from 1928 directed by Ragnar Westfelt.
The film premiered at the Admiral-Palads cinema in Oslo on December 26, 1928.
[5][6] The film tells about a Sámi couple that fall in love with each other against the wishes of the woman's father.
When the wedding day comes, Mats drinks himself senseless and sets fire to the tent they live in.
Mats thinks that Lapp-Nils is dead, and he is so frightened when he sees him that he confesses to having committed the reindeer thefts that Lapp-Nils was accused of, and then he staggers out into the night to a cliff, where he falls and dies.